Gender, sexuality and colonial modernities /
Gender, sexuality and colonial modernities /
edited by Antoinette Burton.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrations
- Routledge research in gender and history ; 2 .
- Routledge research in gender and history ; 2. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cleansing motherhood : hygiene and the culture of domesticity in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1900 / Nayan Shah -- Modernity, medicine and colonialism : the contagious diseases ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements / Philippa Levine -- White colonialism and sexual modernity : Australian women in the early twentieth century metropolis / Angela Woollacott -- Local colour : the spectacle of race at Niagara Falls / Karen Dubinsky -- Unsettling settlers : colonial migrants and racialised sexuality in interwar Marseilles / Yaël Simpson Fletcher -- Wanted native views : collecting colonial postcards of India / Saloni Mathur -- Racialising imperial Canada : Indian women and the making of ethnic communities / Enakshi Dua -- Unnecessary crimes and tragedies : race, gender and sexuality in Australian policies of Aboriginal child removal / Fiona Paisley -- Gendering the modern : women and home science in British India / Mary Hancock -- Gender and "hyper-masculinity" as post-colonial modernity during Indonesia's struggle for independence, 1945 to 1949 / Frances Gouda -- "Respectability," "modernity" and the policing of "culture" in colonial Ceylon / Malathi De Alwis -- Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood : theosophy and the colonial syncretic / Joy Dixon -- The lineage of the "Indian" modern : rhetoric, agency and the Sarda Act in late colonial India / Mrinalini Sinha.
This book considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures of colonial gender and sexual politics.
English.
0203984498 (electronic bk.) 9780203984499 (electronic bk.) 9780415200684 0415200687 9786610175413 6610175411 1280175419 9781280175411 1134636482 9781134636488 (Cloth) 1134636474 9781134636471
10.4324/9780203984499 doi
EBSCO
GB99W0724 bnb GBA000988 bnb GBA0-00988
1800-1899
Imperialism--History--19th century.
Women--History--19th century.
Men--History--19th century.
Gender Identity--history
Women--history
Race Relations--history
Colonialism--history
Impérialisme--Histoire--19e siècle.
Femmes--Histoire--19e siècle.
Hommes--Histoire--19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Gender Studies.
Imperialism.
Men.
Women.
Frau.
Geschichte.
Kolonialismus.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
JC359 / .G46 1999eb
305.309
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cleansing motherhood : hygiene and the culture of domesticity in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1875-1900 / Nayan Shah -- Modernity, medicine and colonialism : the contagious diseases ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements / Philippa Levine -- White colonialism and sexual modernity : Australian women in the early twentieth century metropolis / Angela Woollacott -- Local colour : the spectacle of race at Niagara Falls / Karen Dubinsky -- Unsettling settlers : colonial migrants and racialised sexuality in interwar Marseilles / Yaël Simpson Fletcher -- Wanted native views : collecting colonial postcards of India / Saloni Mathur -- Racialising imperial Canada : Indian women and the making of ethnic communities / Enakshi Dua -- Unnecessary crimes and tragedies : race, gender and sexuality in Australian policies of Aboriginal child removal / Fiona Paisley -- Gendering the modern : women and home science in British India / Mary Hancock -- Gender and "hyper-masculinity" as post-colonial modernity during Indonesia's struggle for independence, 1945 to 1949 / Frances Gouda -- "Respectability," "modernity" and the policing of "culture" in colonial Ceylon / Malathi De Alwis -- Ancient wisdom, modern motherhood : theosophy and the colonial syncretic / Joy Dixon -- The lineage of the "Indian" modern : rhetoric, agency and the Sarda Act in late colonial India / Mrinalini Sinha.
This book considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures of colonial gender and sexual politics.
English.
0203984498 (electronic bk.) 9780203984499 (electronic bk.) 9780415200684 0415200687 9786610175413 6610175411 1280175419 9781280175411 1134636482 9781134636488 (Cloth) 1134636474 9781134636471
10.4324/9780203984499 doi
EBSCO
GB99W0724 bnb GBA000988 bnb GBA0-00988
1800-1899
Imperialism--History--19th century.
Women--History--19th century.
Men--History--19th century.
Gender Identity--history
Women--history
Race Relations--history
Colonialism--history
Impérialisme--Histoire--19e siècle.
Femmes--Histoire--19e siècle.
Hommes--Histoire--19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Gender Studies.
Imperialism.
Men.
Women.
Frau.
Geschichte.
Kolonialismus.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
JC359 / .G46 1999eb
305.309